The Unexpected Instinct
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Now comes some of the most astonishing work by the sensational John Dickson Carr: The Unexpected Instinct completes the project of collecting Carr's earliest fiction, begun by Douglas Greene in 1980 with The Door to Doom and Other Detections. This new collection reveals Carr's love of historical adventure, fantasy, even satire-and of course, it includes more of his earliest mystery fiction. The reader will encounter among its sixteen selections two newly discovered works, including Carr's long-lost third Sherlock Holmes parody.
John Dickson Carr
John Dickson Carr (1906–1977) was one of the most popular authors of Golden Age British-style detective novels. Born in Pennsylvania and the son of a US congressman, Carr graduated from Haverford College in 1929. Soon thereafter, he moved to England where he married an Englishwoman and began his mystery-writing career. In 1948, he returned to the US as an internationally known author. Carr received the Mystery Writers of America’s highest honor, the Grand Master Award, and was one of the few Americans ever admitted into the prestigious, but almost exclusively British, Detection Club.
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